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SYMHC Live at NYCC: Rodolphe Töpffer and the First Comic Book
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Before there were superheroes, a Swiss teacher drew entertaining doodles for friends. As he developed his sketches into stories told with multiple captioned images, he inadvertently invented the first sequential art comics in the Western world.